While I was developing git-repo I stumbled upon a little known feature that has been introduced in git 2.7: the possibility to have a remote with multiple URLs. After the break I’ll tell you what this is about…… ≫
Here’s a common thing we often hear: if you’re doing a task more than once, automize it! Following up on a former article I wrote in french four years ago, where I was showing how simple it was to do my invoices in LaTeX, I have since then built a more generic framework around that. Let’s have a look after the break.… ≫
Recently I have been caught in a troll with a friend who told me he dislikes docopt, and prefers to stick with argparse. Ever since I started using docopt, I love it and see no reason to stop using it. So we’ll see why after the break…… ≫
There are many online platforms offering repository hosting, though they all suck at one thing, it’s to integrate nicely in the flow of coding. Some have a GUI tool, others integrate more or less in your editor (or IDE), and that’s rarely the ones you’re using for your work. After the break, let me show you my take on this, with a little tool I wrote called git-repo……
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Here’s a tip that will make C coders yell and cry, but will make C++ coders happy: how to implement C++ stream syntax for Arduino.… ≫
About ten days ago, I decided I should learn Javascript. I used to have a terrible opinion about that language, mostly because all I knew about it was the very bad parts… So I decided to give it a try and work on the JSHint lint to add new language features.… ≫
Two years after the first try, I have worked on a few other electronic prototypes and now I think I have the experience I missed a few years back to put the prototype together.… ≫
I need to use the SL030 RFID reader on linux (on a beaglebone with i2c support enabled, of course). But when I tried to communicate with the device using i2cget, the device failed and disappeared from the detected devices… After the break, we’ll see why and how I solved it.… ≫
For a project, I needed to have a simple way to make a central software be able to send commands to several slaves appliances that are on the internets, i.e. they can either be on Internet with a public IP address, or be behind a proxyfied-firewalled private network that can only communicate through port 80. That’s how I came across a W3C working paper about a very simple technology based on HTTP/1.1 long-polling, called EventSource. The full story and real code after the break…… ≫
I got my hands on a msp430 launchpad to play around with it, and unluckily, the launchpad does not play nice with MacOSX 10.6. After the break, you’ll get my tutorial to make it work.… ≫